For more than 35 years, the IWM has attracted distinguished scholars and opinion leaders, thus building an international network of renowned personalities and creating an intellectual center in Vienna.

Founded in 1982 as a private non-profit association, the Institute has remained legally, politically and ideologically independent since then. It receives its core funding from the Austrian Government (Ministry for Science, Research and Economy), the City of Vienna (Cultural Affairs and Science), the Polish Government (Ministry of Science and Higher Education) as well as the Czech Government (Ministries of Foreign Affairs). In addition, its programs and activities are financed by international foundations and other research funding institutions as well as through private donation (Further details: Donations Acceptance Policy and Procedures at IWM).

Supporters and Cooperation Partners

• Albert Hirschman Center on Democracy, Geneva
• Alex Soros
• Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, Vienna
• Aspen Institute Central Europe/Romania, Prague/Bucharest
• Atlantisz Verlag, Budapest
• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
• Austrian Embassy, Warsaw
• Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, Vienna
• Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Vienna
• Austrian Presidential Chancellery
• Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF), Vienna
• Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna
• Burgtheater, Vienna
• Central European University, Budapest
• Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), Northwestern University, Evanston
• Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
• Center for Transcultural Studies (CTS), Northwestern University, Evanston
• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
• City of Vienna
• Commission for Migration and Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (KMI), Vienna
• Der Standard, Vienna
• Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF), Osnabrück
• Die Presse, Vienna
• Diplomatic Academy (Vienna School of International Studies), Vienna
• Embassy of the Czech Republic, Vienna
• ERSTE Bank Group, Vienna
• ERSTE Foundation, Vienna
• European Council on Foreign Relations, Brussels
• European Forum Alpbach
• European Stability Initiative (ESI)
• Eurozine, Vienna
• EVN, Maria Enzersdorf
• Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn
• German Federal Foreign Office
• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
• Hebrew University Jerusalem
• Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa (IDM), Vienna
• Institut for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
• Institute of International Relations, Prague
• Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw
• Karl Polanyi Research Center of Global Social Studies
• Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS)
• King Baudouin Foundation Canada
• Knoll Gallery, Vienna/Budapest
• MasterCard Foundation
• Medienwerk
• Mercator Stiftung
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
• Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
• NETIAS – Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study
• Neue Züricher Zeitung
• Open Society Foundations, New York
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur, Wien
• Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (ÖFSE), Wien
• Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Vienna
• Ö1
• Passagen Verlag, Vienna
• Polish Academy of Sciences– Scientific Center (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN), Vienna
• Polish Embassy, Vienna
• Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Warsaw
• Prague Center for Phenomenological Studies (CFB)
• Project Syndicate, New York/Prague
• RD Foundation Vienna
• Réseau Français des Instituts d’Études Avancées, Paris
• Sekyra Foundation
• Sekyra Group
• Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Vienna
• Steinkellner Visuelle Kommunikation
• Temerty Family Foundation
• Time to Talk – European Network of Houses for Debate
• Ukrainian Free University (Arbeits- und Förderungsgemeinschaft d. Ukrainischen Wissenschaften e.V.), Munich
• Ukrainian Institute, Kyiv
• University of Applied Arts, Vienna
• University Bremen
• University of Innsbruck
• University of Vienna
• Verlag Neue Kritik, Frankfurt/Main
• Vienna Contemporary
• Vienna University of Technology
• Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv
• Volkstheater, Wien
• Wien Museum
• Wiener Festwochen
• Wiener Vorlesungen
• W24

We would like to thank our sponsors, cooperation and media partners and invite you to join the IWMfriends – a group of private and institutional donors who have supported our work since 2005.